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What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did
men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What
were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath
of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did
the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were
fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and
the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary
essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation,
belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter
with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked
essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural
studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war
has shaped Scotland.
"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a
sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival
who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty,
Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the
present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing." This is
the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First
World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly comic
work to the way it was first written, by a young man still reeling
from the trenches. 'We see the dark heart of the book even more
clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original
edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered
terms of the later one' Andrew Motion 'One of the most candid
self-portraits, warts and all, ever painted' TLS
The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland
has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This
collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of
modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts
within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on
influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and
differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book
cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions.
Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic'
approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing
important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed
include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis
MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton
Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don
Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to
our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries.
The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland
has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This
collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of
modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts
within broad historical and political contextualization. Playing on
influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and
differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book
cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions.
Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic'
approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing
important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed
include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis
MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton
Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don
Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to
our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries.
This book explores the historical background to Irish participation in the Great War, and the ways in which issues raised in 1914-18 still reverberate in contemporary Northern Ireland. The complications of Irish politics are such that Irish memory of the Great War has often been repressed. Nevertheless, Irish writers throughout the century have been preoccupied with the events and images of the Great War. The work of the Irish poets discussed here - from W. B. Yeats and Ireland's soldier-poets through to Seamus Heaney and contemporary Northern Irish writing - challenges reductive versions of history, and of the literary canon, in relation to Ireland and the First World War.
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did
men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What
were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath
of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did
the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were
fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and
the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary
essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation,
belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter
with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked
essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural
studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war
has shaped Scotland.
This book explores the historical background to Irish participation in the Great War, and the ways in which issues raised in 1914-18 still reverberate in contemporary Northern Ireland. The complications of Irish politics are such that Irish memory of the Great War has often been repressed. Nevertheless, Irish writers throughout the century have been preoccupied with the events and images of the Great War. The work of the Irish poets discussed here - from W. B. Yeats and Ireland's soldier-poets through to Seamus Heaney and contemporary Northern Irish writing - challenges reductive versions of history, and of the literary canon, in relation to Ireland and the First World War.
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